Octavio Bokel
Developer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOctavio Bokel is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building high-performance, resilient systems across startups and large tech companies, currently developing at Booking.com in Amsterdam. He combines pragmatic functional Scala backend expertise (Kafka, Akka, Http4s, Play) with mobile and frontend experience from Android and Ionic projects, and a history of founding product-focused startups. His work emphasizes scalability and observability—designing fault-tolerant production proxies, instrumenting business metrics, and optimizing for large user loads and heavy XML/data processing. Notably, he implemented non-blocking architectures that supported 25k concurrent users and contributed a Cordova camera fix accepted by the Apache project, reflecting both deep engineering and practical open-source impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colégio TeresianoComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at PUC-RJ
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
cordova9
apache-cordova9
json9
cordova-plugin9
camera8
scala8
java8
nodejs8
objective-c7
javascript7
generic-derivation7
jackson5
apache5
json-schema5
cdc4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opbokel/hellway2pe
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:89 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
opbokel/hellway
Jul 2015 - Jan 2022
Atary 2600 game
Contributions:160 commits, 4 PRs, 132 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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